RE: https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115606554953534570
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115606554953534570
If you wonder how the initial spread of misinformation works...
Step 1: someone casually mentions an untruth inside a package of otherwise interesting and believable information.
Step 2: a couple 100 people share that.
Future step 3: others remember this and eventually retell their own version
Anyway: oops and sorry.
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115606554953534570
If you wonder how the initial spread of misinformation works...
Step 1: someone casually mentions an untruth inside a package of otherwise interesting and believable information.
Step 2: a couple 100 people share that.
Future step 3: others remember this and eventually retell their own version
Anyway: oops and sorry.
>Now here's a fun thing many people don't know about #Holland.
The Netherlands. "Holland" sounds more casual.
>Due to the ever rising popularity of #cycling,
Cars sales & use are rising faster than bicycle use. That said. Bicycle use is slowly increasing among some groups & areas.
>gas stations all over the country have been converted into bicycle repair and rental shops.
Are they? I dunno.
>Here's the one in Hoevelaken.
That one indeed is. There's a gas station across the street though.
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>Now here's a fun thing many people don't know about #Holland.
The Netherlands. "Holland" sounds more casual.
>Due to the ever rising popularity of #cycling,
Cars sales & use are rising faster than bicycle use. That said. Bicycle use is slowly increasing among some groups & areas.
>gas stations all over the country have been converted into bicycle repair and rental shops.
Are they? I dunno.
>Here's the one in Hoevelaken.
That one indeed is. There's a gas station across the street though.
Part n of the webseries 'Pepijn tries to crack a joke and people take it seriously' ?
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Part n of the webseries 'Pepijn tries to crack a joke and people take it seriously' ?
@EvilCartyen Apparently so. Admittedly I do have a rather low capacity for predicting whether people are going to trust me or laugh with me.
This was something I was hyper aware about when working as an industrial safety trainer. Bit less so when posting on the internet..
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@EvilCartyen Apparently so. Admittedly I do have a rather low capacity for predicting whether people are going to trust me or laugh with me.
This was something I was hyper aware about when working as an industrial safety trainer. Bit less so when posting on the internet..
@Pepijn I think a lot of it's cultural. Some cultures, Danes and Dutch people included, just like to tell tall tales and be ironic, and certain other cultures just don't pick up on it.
I have a friend who married a Spanish lady, and the first time I met her she asked me if I knew when he was kidding because she could never tell. Admittedly he's a very very talented liar and inventor of stories, but I don't think it's that uncommon for people from this side of the woods.
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@EvilCartyen Apparently so. Admittedly I do have a rather low capacity for predicting whether people are going to trust me or laugh with me.
This was something I was hyper aware about when working as an industrial safety trainer. Bit less so when posting on the internet..
@Pepijn @EvilCartyen We were once stopped by a couple of tourists in Amsterdam. They asked us what the building behind us was and he very seriously answered “that’s the royal palace”. They completely believed him and I had to run after them to tell them it was the Central Train Station.
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@Pepijn @EvilCartyen We were once stopped by a couple of tourists in Amsterdam. They asked us what the building behind us was and he very seriously answered “that’s the royal palace”. They completely believed him and I had to run after them to tell them it was the Central Train Station.
@Pepijn @EvilCartyen He is ridiculously good at making people believe any BS he can think of, and all I can do is stand next to him and gesture like a madwoman “HE IS LYING TO YOU”
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@Pepijn @EvilCartyen He is ridiculously good at making people believe any BS he can think of, and all I can do is stand next to him and gesture like a madwoman “HE IS LYING TO YOU”
